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. 2015 Jun 7;2015:413076. doi: 10.1155/2015/413076

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Chemical structure of paclitaxel. Paclitaxel consist of taxane ring with a four-membered oxetane side ring at positions C4 and C5 and an active homochiral ester side chain at C13 that binds to microtubules in a guanosine triphosphate (GTP) independent manner to induce cytotoxicity activity.